Women Fire Back in The Fight Against Reproductive Rights

With the controversial debate over free birth control and crazy new proposed laws that target women's reproductive health, it's easy to feel like women are coming under attack lately. Now, some female politicians are firing back—by targeting men's rights.

Fed up with women's rights repeatedly being targeted, some female lawmakers in six states are working to crack down on men's sexual and reproductive rights.

Some of our favorites:

* An amendment in Oklahoma proposes that it be stipulated that semen can only be ejaculated in a woman's vagina. That means, if the law passed, it would be illegal in Oklahoma for men to masturbate. The law states that the act of ejaculating outside a woman's vagina "shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child."

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* A bill in Georgia would prohibit men from getting vasectomies because, as the bill says, "Thousands of children are deprived of birth in this state every year because of the lack of state regulation over vasectomies."

* A bill in Virginia (which has already been shot down) proposed that men be required to get a rectal exam and cardiac stress test before they could get a prescription for an erectile-dysfunction drug like Viagra. They would also need to get a certificate from one of their recent sexual partners that states that they're experiencing problems with erectile dysfunction, as well as be required to see a sex therapist before they can get a prescription.

The chance of any of these laws getting passed is pretty much zero, but the female lawmakers behind them created these propositions to make a point: If you target our sexual and reproductive health, we'll go after yours.